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My understanding from the diagrams they showed is that the orbit is a wide one (oval) around Earth that passes near Mars.
by rainbowmverse 9y ago
My understanding from the diagrams they showed is that the orbit is a wide one (oval) around Earth that passes near Mars.
- ajnin 9y agoIt's actually orbiting around the Sun, it passes near Earth orbit at the perihelion and near Mars orbit around aphelion, but is not actually in orbit around either planet.
- Diederich 9y agohttps://imgur.com/a/NJsIv https://imgur.com/a/NJsIv
- alkonaut 9y agoIt has just burned again to raise apogee, and will burn a third time to switch from earth orbit to a transfer orbit (edit: or perhaps the next orbit is the final Earth-Mars orbit?)